LUXATE
LUX'ATE, verb transitive [Latin luxo, laxo, laxus.]To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate. Lux, in a like sense, is, I belie...
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LUXATED
LUX'ATED, participle passive Put out of joint; dislocated.
LUXATING
LUX'ATING, participle present tense Removing or forcing out of its place, as a joint; dislocating.
LUXATION
LUXA'TION, noun1. That act of moving or forcing a joint from its proper place or articulation; or the state of being thus put out of joint.2. A dislocation; that which is disloc...
LUXE
LUXE, noun Luxury. [Not used.]
LUXURIANCE
LUXU'RIANCE,LUXU'RIANCY, noun [Latin luxurians, luxurio, to grow rank, or to wanton.]1. Rank growth; strong, vigorous growth; exuberance.Flowers grow up in the garden with the g...
LUXURIANCY
LUXU'RIANCY, n. [L. luxurians, luxurio, to grow rank, or to wanton.]1. Rank growth; strong, vigorous growth; exuberance.Flowers grow up in the garden with the greatest luxurianc...
LUXURIANT
LUXU'RIANT, adjective1. Exuberant in growth; abundant; as a luxuriant growth of grass.2. Exuberant in plenty; superfluous in abundance.Prune the luxuriant the uncouth refine.3. ...
LUXURIANTLY
LUXU'RIANTLY, adverb With exuberant growth.
LUXURIATE
LUXU'RIATE, verb intransitive To grow exuberantly, or to grow to superfluous abundance.
LUXURIATION
LUXURIA'TION, noun The process of growing exuberantly, or beyond the natural growth.
LUXURIOUS
LUXU'RIOUS, adjective [Latin luxuriosus, from luxo, to loosen; luxor, to riot.]1. Voluptuous; indulging freely or excessively in the pleasures of the table, the gratification of...
LUXURIOUSLY
LUXU'RIOUSLY, adverb In abundance of rich diet, dress or equipage; deliciously; voluptuously.
LUXURIST
LUX'URIST, noun One given to luxury.
LUXURY
LUX'URY, noun [Latin luxuria, from luxo, to loosen.]1. A free or extravagant indulgence in the pleasures of the table, as in rich and expensive diet, or delicious food and liquo...
LVELIHOOD
L'VELIHOOD, noun [lively and hood, or lifelode, from lead.Means of living; support of life; maintenance. Trade furnishes many people with an honest livelihood. Men of enterprise...
LY
LY, a termination of adjectives, is a contraction of Sax.lie, G.lich, D.lyk, Dan.lige, Sw.lik, Eng.like; as in lovely, manly, that is, love-like, man-like. As the termination of...
LYAM
LY'AM, noun A leash for holding a hound.
LYCANTHROPY
LYCAN'THROPY, noun [Gr. a wolf, and man.]A kind of erratic melancholy.
LYCOSTOM
LYCOS'TOM, noun A Baltic fish resembling a herring.
LYDIAN
LYD'IAN, adjective [from Lydia.]Noting a kind of soft slow music anciently in vogue.Lydian stone, flinty slate.
LYE
LYE, noun [Latin lix, whence lixivium; Ant. Latin lixa, whence Lugdunum, Leyden, Lyons, that is Water-town.]Water impregnated with alkaline salt imbibed from the ashes of wood.L...
LYING
LY'ING, participle present tense of lie. Being prostrate. [See Lie.]LY'ING, participle present tense of lie. Telling falsehood.Lying in, being in childbirth.1.noun The act of be...
LYMNITE
LYM'NITE, noun A kind of freshwater snail, found fossil.
LYMPH
LYMPH, noun [Latin lympha.] Water, or a colorless fluid in animal bodies, separated from the blood and contained in certain vessels called lymphatics.
LYMPHATE
LYMPH'ATELYMPH'ATED, adjective Frightened into madness; raving.
LYMPHATIC
LYMPHAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to lymph.1. Enthusiastic. [Not used.]LYMPHAT'IC, noun A vessel of animal bodies which contains or conveys lymph.The lymphatics seem to perform t...